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Spain was wrong to jail the Catalan separatists
Some things just don’t pass the gut test. Your head tells you they’re right, all the facts point in their…
John Bolton, avenger
President Trump may be pulling out of Syria, but it’s bombs away in Washington. John Bolton’s likening Rudy Giuliani to…
What Pelosi really wants from impeachment
The most important thing to know about Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is this: it is not about removing President Trump now; it…
On black privilege
Discussions of ‘privilege’ have become one of the themes of this age. In a short space of time, the obsession…
Did anyone take today’s Queen’s Speech seriously?
If today’s Queen’s Speech was meant to offer a preview of what the next general election and life after it…
Andrew Yang is 2020’s ad blocker candidate
Every so often, a political candidate rises to the fore fueled by the grievances of people who are seriously annoyed.…
The biggest risk with Boris Johnson’s Queen’s Speech
This is more an election manifesto launch than a conventional Queen’s Speech, because Boris Johnson simply does not have the numbers in…
Could Boris Johnson win an election but lose his seat?
Is Boris safe in Uxbridge? The Lib Dems have an eye on the Prime Minister’s 5000 vote majority and their…
The purpose of Boris Johnson’s Queen’s Speech
Normally a Prime Minister uses a Queen’s Speech to lay out their government’s legislative agenda for the year ahead. However,…
Can ministers really hold their nerve on Brexit this week?
Boris Johnson is now in what’s known in cricket as the ‘Nervous Nineties’, when a batsman becomes so anxious about…
If Boris does a Brexit deal, it will be because of the ‘Surrender Act’
Will he strike a deal with the EU allowing Britain to leave this month? Will he compromise on the Irish…
Is a deal really possible?
It is one of the most remarkable turnarounds in recent political history. On Wednesday afternoon, the Brexit talks seemed pretty…
When Jacob Rees-Mogg met Extinction Rebellion
I walked down Villiers Street to Embankment Tube station. In front of me were two Extinction Rebels, a mother and…
Brexit party voters will decide Boris Johnson’s fate
The fate of Boris Johnson’s premiership will be determined by Nigel Farage and the Brexit party. Even if a Brexit…
Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth
Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack, but Joe Biden’s campaign may be the casualty. The 78-year-old Sanders’s physical condition renewed…
Don’t blame oil and coal companies for climate change
This year’s Nobel Prize for the silliest piece of scientific research must go to something called the Climate Accountability Institute,…
Is Putin winning the war in Ukraine?
‘The Ukraine Affair’ involving Donald Trump was front-page news across the world this month – but not in Ukraine itself. There…
Donald Trump’s shameful Syrian betrayal
Donald Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria is one of the most shortsighted foreign policy miscalculations in recent memory.…
Will Greta Thunberg win the Nobel Peace Prize? I really hope not
We’ve begun to behave as if young people are special; more virtuous and wiser than adults. It’s wrong and it’s…
Tories fret over further election delay
Members of the One Nation caucus of Conservative MPs met with Boris Johnson this afternoon over concerns the party could…
Revealed: David Cameron’s ‘Gove protocol’
When Michael Gove was welcomed back into government this year and appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, some wondered…
Extinction Rebellion is a menace
It’s tempting to laugh at Extinction Rebellion. I do it myself frequently. Those yoga sessions on Westminster Bridge. The amateur…
Thwarting Brexit probably won’t stop Brexit
What if they succeed in thwarting Brexit? The odds seem weighted against Boris Johnson delivering his do-or-die (-in-a-ditch) promise to…
Boris Johnson takes on extinction rebellion at book launch
To the launch of the final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher at Banqueting House. A mix of…
Can Boris Johnson survive if he breaks his Brexit promise?
It gives me no pleasure to report this of my former Daily Telegraph colleague, but some people who know Boris…
